Straight off I was building that great future of Nicky's in my imagination, and had already made a renowned general of him and hofmeister at the court, when I noticed that Satan was waiting for me to get ready to listen again.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

There's a most almighty row going on all round.
— from Action Front by Boyd Cable

This double nature of good, as it is specifically developed in man, not as humanity only, for man is not limited to his kind in his intelligence, or in his will, or in his affections,—this double nature of good, as it is developed in man, with his contemplative, and moral, and religious grasp of a larger whole than his particular and private nature can comprehend—with his large discourse looking before and after, on the one hand, and his blind instincts, and his narrow isolating senses on the other—with that distinctive human nature on the one hand, whereby he does, in some sort, comprehend the world, and not intellectually only—
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

For these you play at purposes, 1005 And love your love's with A's and B's: For these at Beste and L'Ombre woo, And play for love and money too; Strive who shall be the ablest man At right gallanting of a fan; 1010
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

As all this is true, how perilous is the attitude of many who follow attractive ministers and religious guides only because they claim to be such, and are sincere, and who are not awake to the one final test of doctrine by which alone the whole covered system of Satanic lies can be distinguished from the truth of God.
— from Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer

There were also present Speaker Colfax , Chief-Justice Cartter , Senator Wilson , Representatives Farnsworth , Arnold , Marston , and Rollins , Governor Oglesby , accompanied by Adjutant-General Haynie , Major Hay , Generals Auger , Meigs , and Halleck , Ex-Governor Farwell , Rev. Dr. Gurley , and Commissioner French , Colonels Vincent Pelouze and Rutherford , and Major Rockwell .
— from Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln by Isaac N. Arnold

“Who knows,” Blanche begins to ask herself, peeping at him from under her long eyelashes, “if he really is such a monster as report gives out?
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

"This is just a little private side-show of Mary's and mine," answered Rob, going off into another peal of laughter at sight of Mary's solemn face.
— from The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

He was in truth an able and accomplished man, a really great organiser, thoroughly well qualified to preside over an educational establishment like Oscott.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron